Have a tip to beat jet lag? Leave it below! 👇😴 And a few notes on things that didn't make it into the episode: - Alcohol decreases sleep quality and can interfere with staying asleep. Best to avoid it while you're trying to adjust to a new time zone, if you can... - Caffeine isn't necessarily bad, alongon as you aren'drinkingng it within 4-6 hours of bedtime (if you're particularly caffeine sensitive, you'll know that and probably avoid it) - Small doses of melatonin have been found to help you fall asleep. More info and notes in the video description! Sleep well (better than me, at least) and thanks for watching 🧠
Floatation therapy aka isolation tanks aka sensory deprivation. If you can fall asleep REM cycles hit faster ~4hrs for 30mins. I have +250hrs if you have questions.
Make sure you stay adequately hydrated. Shifting your time zone can mess with all kinds of things, including your timing of drinking water. In addition, flying on commercial airlines with pressurized cabins dehydrates you at much higher rates than you'd expect. Of course, your new location possibly has water that is problematic for you, so be careful, otherwise you just make the problem worse. Most experienced travelers that I know schedule travel days into their travel plans. These days are spent just traveling and nothing else except for resting (no working, no sight seeing, no visiting relatives, etc.). It can be hard on your built-up vacation time, but worth it in the end.
My sleep schedule varies greatly on a day to day basis (I'm a student and I'm often sick). Unless I have appointments or classes I must attend, I sleep when I get too tired to remain awake. Normally though, I go to sleep at 10 pm and wake up between 6 and 8 am (during a semester [8 pm -> 4-6 am over the summer break]). - Going from Europe to the US (and back again), I stayed awake until it was bedtime at my landing location. -> When going to the US this has proven unproblematic. This is likely due to a high level of excitement (starting my holiday). -> Going back to Europe, I had to be awake for 36 hours. This was hell, but from day 2 onwards I was jetlag free. - I always sleep with my curtains open. This allows me to get woken up by the sun (during half the year). A sun-lamp can be used to gradually wake you up, over a 30 minute period when your wakeup time and sleep cycle do not match. - The regular sleep tips apply (no blue light before bed, no cognitively or physically strenuous activities before bed, avoid fatty foods, alcohol and caffeine). > ASAP Science did a great video on how to fall asleep in two minutes, as well as other sleep tips. > CGP Grey remains on Grey Master Time (GMT) when taking short trips across continents (if your schedule allows, this is an effective way for him to maintain his productivity levels). * Now, you mentioned difficulties waking up. Get an alarm you need to get out of bed to turn off, alongside the sun-light one.
I've found that traveling east, the best way to beat jet lag is to force yourself to stay awake until 9pm. Normally traveling from the US to Europe, flights depart in the evening and arrive in the morning. I'll stay awake the entire day prior to the flight, nap on the plane, then enjoy a full day before going to bed at night. It's basically like staying awake for two whole days.
The rare time that I've had to do this, I have found the same. There's actually a point where a bigger timezone difference is better, though. My work sometimes has me pull late-nighters, so it's not uncommon that I'll end up being awake for 20 hours in a row. That would be tough... except my homeostatic drive seems to go about 18 hours before my eyelids want to droop at all, and if I'm busy/active it kicks in later than that. Can be as much as 20 or 22 hours. I can't do this every day of the week, but when I'm well rested it's no problem. For sleep, I make sure I have no disruptions for ~6 hours. (More after intense work.) That seems to be what my brain needs to fully recover and be alert. I put all devices on DoNotDisturb to make sure I get undisrupted sleep. 18/6 works pretty okay if you can tolerate it without detriment, but very physical jobs would necessitate much more rest. It actually works better with slight timezone shifts, so that's probably why I have less jetlag than many people. Ex: If you're going 12 hours east, you just do 26/10 and you're back on target. Nice and easy. For example, wake up at 8AM, work until the evening, catch a flight but stay awake - when you land you're 12 hours ahead, so it'll be the evening wherever you went. Then catch a nice long rest. This is harder to do going from North America to Europe, since your timezone difference is much smaller than 12 hours (can be as little as 5), but around that 12 timezone mark it's pretty easy to re-orient if you have the energy to get through a very long day.
My jet lag treatment for decades has been: 1. Stay fully hydrated. You should be peeing every 2-4 hours. 2. Stay up if at all possible, even if it means going up to two days without sleep. Use coffee (but not sugar) whenever needed. 3. If staying up isn't practical (like a big morning meeting), then take a sleep aid. The best overall (for safety and lack of complications) is 50 mg Benadryl (diphenhydramine). 4. Do morning and evening light workouts for a couple of days, even if that isn't your regular habit. A brisk 2 mile walk/jog will do. 5. As Nessy said, eat regular meals at regular times. It's ok to have small snacks if needed, but no carbs: A few nuts are ideal to delay hunger to mealtime. Edit: 6. Avoid alcohol! Almost always, it makes jet lag much worse.
I was worried you would leave out the alcohol part. Because yeah... that plus dehydration will destroy you. But I follow a regimen almost identical to yours. While it certainly doesn't keep jet lag from occurring, it definitely helps things along. My biggest tip is hydration. I also now completely swear by compression socks.
The only sleep pattern worse than a nocturnal one is an inconsistent one. There's plenty of videos you can watch that dive into the side effects of limited or irregular sleep, and how to get on track to having more consistent sleep patterns :)
I used to travel a lot between N. America and Asia. I never really experienced jet lag because, no matter what time it was where I arrived, I would always just force myself to stay up through the first "day" and not even bother with trying to sleep. I'd go to sleep whenever the next local time it was that I usually slept would roll around. At that point I'd be tired enough that I just go to sleep immediately and I wake up whenever I regularly wake up, but using local time. I feel like for me this bypasses any kind of schedule relating to the biological clock or circadian rhythm and resets everything to local time.
my tip from my experience in long travels ( usually over 28 hours of travel ) is to always avoid coffee and tea during the trip and don't try to sleep too much during the trip. when you arrive to your distention, wait until around 7 to 8 PM and go to sleep even if you were very tired and keep avoiding coffee, and take a long sleep until you are fresh. going that will take you just one day to fix your jet lag.
I’m currently in Greece on holiday from New Zealand and at took me about a week to feel like I was back on a normal sleep cycle, I’m also on my last couple of days before I head back, going to try and get onto Nz time before I hop on a plane!
Well as a french person, I have to say that your poster intrigued me. I was wondering why you had a french version of H.G Wells's Time Machine. Ohterwise, the subject is interesting. Nice video ^^
You can actually prepare before you go by eating and sleeping closer to the time schedule at your destination. So, traveling east, you would go to bed and wake up earlier, and also eat most of your meals early in the day.
Since I am studying at university I am working at a large company in shifts (early shift, late shift and night shift) in my summer holydays every year. Getting up early (4am) is often hard. I felt better when I also stood up early (at least 7am) the day before the first early shift so I was tired enough to go to bed and sleep early that day. Then I had almost no jetlag. After night shifts I was always able to fall asleep immediately. The key was to sleep enough to do the night shift without falling asleep and also sleeping less enough to be tired in the morning and fall asleep then (~7hrs}. After every last night shift there were some free days (before it started again with a early shift or late shift). I slept only ~5 hrs and got up around midday after the last night shift. Of course this made me feel a bit unwell but then I was tired enough to go o bed at a normal time in the evening. I often used these days for cleaning or other things I don't like and things that would make me feel unwell anyway ;) Obviousely this doesn't work for everyone and as you get older falling asleep after a night shift becomes harder and harder. What's always important is having much daylight to get awake and no daylight to go to bed (and some time before). So Ineeded almost no coffee ;)
Went from WA to FL once, with a layover. Arrived so exhausted from traveling that I went to bed at 7pm FL-time, woke up about 7am FL-time, and didn't have any jet lag at all. Going back home was a different story, though. Of course, I'm probably just an outlier that way, since I have ADD and Delayed Sleep, so I basically have no "internal clock/sense of time" other than being triggered by sunlight to want to sleep in a complete reverse of most people's sleep-pattern.
When I was switching between day and night shifts every month I really needed prescription meds. huge downside is they can be habit-forming. I also had to blackout my windows when trying to sleep during the day
What has worked for me has been simply to not go to sleep until a reasonable time in the arrival time zone. Yeah, a bit longish when going a lot of time zones eastward, but has allowed me to be reasonably functional the next day, and no issues the day after that. However, I recognize that I'm on the "robust" side of things, like having skipped a nights sleep sometimes, and once skipping two nights of sleep (in my home time zone).
surprisingly, for me, jetlag going west actually has a tendency to _fix_ my regularly unhealthy sleep cycle - if you go to sleep at 4AM, then having your body's 4AM be your current timezone's midnight actually helps a ton
Is jet lag symptoms include head pressure that lasts for 3 weeks? Also can jet lag happen without traveling? I can't sleeo and doctor told me you have jetlag so gave me melatonin to sleep and it has been a week since i started melatonin but im still suffering.. I cant sleep and when i do i feel pressure in my head which wakes me up everytime.
One thing I don't get about the advise is "Don't use devices or bright lights before bed", so mostly in the dark doing nothing (too dim to read), how is that any different from lying awake for hours on end? I must be missing something simple...
A month ago I had -7 hour jet lag, fell asleep at 7pm, woke up at 5am and had lunch by 10am, my way to beat that was to drink a ton of coffee for a few days and by day 3 I was almost back to regular
When I go from Ohio (US) to the Philippines to see my wifes family, the trip is around 32 hours. 3 flights, one of which is 16 hours. Jet lag kills me once there and once back home since there is exactly a 12 hour difference between us. My cure? I've tried sleeping pills, I've tried working out (to get tired at the right time)...etc. It tends to work. I also may find something that will keep me awake much longer then normal. Maybe I'll hop in a game for a few hours so tiem goes by and I don't feel sleepy. Though in the end what makes it hard is my wife works random hours. So a normal sleep schedule is hard to do.
I sleep on planes well. The hum of engines puts me to sleep often before take-off. I slept for 12 hours on a 14 hour flight. Arrived in the morning so didn't have jetlag at all.
My tip it’s to change my clock/phone to the time of the place I am going to the second I get on the airplane to adjust to the new time zone as early as possible and eat/sleep on the plane according to that time schedule.
Trust me, getting used to these changes helps a lot, and there are several interesting studies that show how different wavelengths of light lead to more melatonin secretion, and hence a better sleep
Although there's 14 hrs difference between Sydney and New York for clocks, our bodies are probably not going to care about the dates so it's more like 10 hours for our bodies.
what about coffee and caffeine? would be interesting to hear if that plays into jet lag, as well as impact on the sleep processes generally (homeostatic & circadian rhythm).
If Sydney is 14 hours ahead of New York, it means new York is 10 hours ahead of Sydney the previous day, so the actual time to resync the two cycles should only be 10 days rather than 14. Also I suspect the going east is worse than going west rule flips around if the time difference is more than 12 hours, which would imply it should only take 5 days for someone travelling from Sydney to New York to get over jet lag.
Worse traveling east than west? Personally I‘ve always found it to be the other way around (i.e. easier going to Europe than coming back to the US). Still, great video though!
Isn't it impossible to go 14 hours in one direction as you said? Cause if you went 14 hours east, it means, in fact, you went 10 hours west, from what I understand.
My jetlag is always very bad. I get very sick and don't manage a sleeping schedule until days and days after my trip. I've tried almost everything. The only thing I've found it works is to be patient and wait it out. Usually I travel from Europe to South America and back.
My research into the effectiveness of melatonin (not specifically jet-lag related) studies showed that they only gave people and average of 7 minutes of extra sleep per night, so why bother? My own experience of taking it is that it didn't do much, although my difficulty in falling asleep and staying asleep was rooted in anxiety and "unhelpful" though patterns/spirals, rather than jet-lag
I have horror jet lag after being in Hawaii. It's just really bad. I can not fall asleep at all. I have been falling asleep at like 3 am 4 am and up at work at 645, not sure how I can quickly get back on track but I'm trying 🙃 😅 I'm in East Stand time now. Any tips?!
I am not here to offer tips on how to prevent and or cure jetlag. I am here to offer a simple experiment all air travelers can perform before and during your air travels. Get a weight scale that will easily fit in your backpack. Take an inventory of the clothes and accessories youre wearing and weigh yourself at the airport terminal before you board your flight and write what you weighed so you dont forget. After the aircraft gets to its maximum altitude get your scale out and weigh yourself again and write what you weigh at that altitude.The premise or assessment here is that Earth's magnetic field is more dense at ground level and so people and objects weigh more at sea level and weigh less the higher we get because Earth's magnetic field becomes increasingly less dense the further away we get from Earth. So air travelers are experiencing only partial gravitational forces unlike the astronauts who experience zero gravity at the ISS. So i guess you could say air travelers are mini-astronauts or astronauts in training..So partial gravitational forces being experienced by air travelers may be the cause of jetlag.
I don't really get it either. Even going half way across the world. Maybe that one day I'm a bit tired but that could just as well be related to sleeping crappy in a plane etc. After I've stayed one day on my new location, I'm fine.
So, Sydney to New York is 14 hours east, wouldn't it be better to pretend it's 10 hours west? That would mean 5 days to recover instead of 14. You "lost" one night in the travel but that's a separate issue.
The best way to avoid Jetlag is to stay on the ground. Don't fly. That's better for the environment, too. Just don't pollute as much and as an added bonus, you'll also not mess up your internal clock.
I have some times problems to sleep because I have to wake up very early... I try to count bunnies but some times it doesn't help too... I make aromatherapy with lavender and it helps a little. That's all the tips I have. How many bunnies can you count in one night? Have you tried it? 🐰🐰🐰🐰😉
I have a cure for Jet Lag, just be Bipolar! I haven't had a circadian rhythm in years. I work when i wake up and sleep when i get sleepy, no mater what time it is.
There's also some interesting research on how travelling through time zones effects the microbiome. Researchers also found that intermittent fasting when travelling can help prevent jet lag and lessen its impact
I used to travel internationally a lot. At least once a month, so I had perma-jetlag. I found the best solution is called business class. I can sleep in international business class, but not in economy. You still get out of sync with the day, but don't feel nearly so bad. I think this is because the worst part of jetlag is sleep deprivation, not the being out of sync. My other tricks were to eat fatty food (like a full English breakfast if visiting the UK) shortly after your intended waking time. I got that from research by Prof Seth Roberts. Also, as you say in the video, get out in early morning sunlight in the destination. You can move the needle up to 3-4 hours a day by doing these things. Melatonin never worked for me. I tried ambien - supposedly not addictive, but it's terribly addictive - try it for 3 days, then sleeping without it and you will see why. So I'm never taking Ambien again. The third big thing was to interact with people during the day. That gets your brain shifting its circadian priorities.
I looked it up in *so* many places and there were so many varying pronunciations. I'm curious - what's the reasoning behind that pronunciation? How do you know?
Just stop having emotion and mood, stop trying to sleep, stop coffee and pills, sleep is like food a lack of it for few hour is more placebo effect, stop caring about it.
Have a tip to beat jet lag? Leave it below! 👇😴
And a few notes on things that didn't make it into the episode:
- Alcohol decreases sleep quality and can interfere with staying asleep. Best to avoid it while you're trying to adjust to a new time zone, if you can...
- Caffeine isn't necessarily bad, alongon as you aren'drinkingng it within 4-6 hours of bedtime (if you're particularly caffeine sensitive, you'll know that and probably avoid it)
- Small doses of melatonin have been found to help you fall asleep. More info and notes in the video description!
Sleep well (better than me, at least) and thanks for watching 🧠
Floatation therapy aka isolation tanks aka sensory deprivation. If you can fall asleep REM cycles hit faster ~4hrs for 30mins. I have +250hrs if you have questions.
Not explicitly for jet lag, but as a shift worker, thick curtains, I cannot stress this enough.
Make sure you stay adequately hydrated. Shifting your time zone can mess with all kinds of things, including your timing of drinking water. In addition, flying on commercial airlines with pressurized cabins dehydrates you at much higher rates than you'd expect.
Of course, your new location possibly has water that is problematic for you, so be careful, otherwise you just make the problem worse.
Most experienced travelers that I know schedule travel days into their travel plans. These days are spent just traveling and nothing else except for resting (no working, no sight seeing, no visiting relatives, etc.). It can be hard on your built-up vacation time, but worth it in the end.
My sleep schedule varies greatly on a day to day basis (I'm a student and I'm often sick). Unless I have appointments or classes I must attend, I sleep when I get too tired to remain awake. Normally though, I go to sleep at 10 pm and wake up between 6 and 8 am (during a semester [8 pm -> 4-6 am over the summer break]).
- Going from Europe to the US (and back again), I stayed awake until it was bedtime at my landing location.
-> When going to the US this has proven unproblematic. This is likely due to a high level of excitement (starting my holiday).
-> Going back to Europe, I had to be awake for 36 hours. This was hell, but from day 2 onwards I was jetlag free.
- I always sleep with my curtains open. This allows me to get woken up by the sun (during half the year). A sun-lamp can be used to gradually wake you up, over a 30 minute period when your wakeup time and sleep cycle do not match.
- The regular sleep tips apply (no blue light before bed, no cognitively or physically strenuous activities before bed, avoid fatty foods, alcohol and caffeine).
> ASAP Science did a great video on how to fall asleep in two minutes, as well as other sleep tips.
> CGP Grey remains on Grey Master Time (GMT) when taking short trips across continents (if your schedule allows, this is an effective way for him to maintain his productivity levels).
* Now, you mentioned difficulties waking up. Get an alarm you need to get out of bed to turn off, alongside the sun-light one.
@@nymalous3428 I use the LifeStraw when travelling. It can filter any water, and 1 000 liters of it.
I've found that traveling east, the best way to beat jet lag is to force yourself to stay awake until 9pm.
Normally traveling from the US to Europe, flights depart in the evening and arrive in the morning. I'll stay awake the entire day prior to the flight, nap on the plane, then enjoy a full day before going to bed at night. It's basically like staying awake for two whole days.
The rare time that I've had to do this, I have found the same. There's actually a point where a bigger timezone difference is better, though.
My work sometimes has me pull late-nighters, so it's not uncommon that I'll end up being awake for 20 hours in a row. That would be tough... except my homeostatic drive seems to go about 18 hours before my eyelids want to droop at all, and if I'm busy/active it kicks in later than that. Can be as much as 20 or 22 hours. I can't do this every day of the week, but when I'm well rested it's no problem.
For sleep, I make sure I have no disruptions for ~6 hours. (More after intense work.) That seems to be what my brain needs to fully recover and be alert. I put all devices on DoNotDisturb to make sure I get undisrupted sleep. 18/6 works pretty okay if you can tolerate it without detriment, but very physical jobs would necessitate much more rest. It actually works better with slight timezone shifts, so that's probably why I have less jetlag than many people.
Ex: If you're going 12 hours east, you just do 26/10 and you're back on target. Nice and easy. For example, wake up at 8AM, work until the evening, catch a flight but stay awake - when you land you're 12 hours ahead, so it'll be the evening wherever you went. Then catch a nice long rest. This is harder to do going from North America to Europe, since your timezone difference is much smaller than 12 hours (can be as little as 5), but around that 12 timezone mark it's pretty easy to re-orient if you have the energy to get through a very long day.
My jet lag treatment for decades has been:
1. Stay fully hydrated. You should be peeing every 2-4 hours.
2. Stay up if at all possible, even if it means going up to two days without sleep. Use coffee (but not sugar) whenever needed.
3. If staying up isn't practical (like a big morning meeting), then take a sleep aid. The best overall (for safety and lack of complications) is 50 mg Benadryl (diphenhydramine).
4. Do morning and evening light workouts for a couple of days, even if that isn't your regular habit. A brisk 2 mile walk/jog will do.
5. As Nessy said, eat regular meals at regular times. It's ok to have small snacks if needed, but no carbs: A few nuts are ideal to delay hunger to mealtime.
Edit:
6. Avoid alcohol! Almost always, it makes jet lag much worse.
I was worried you would leave out the alcohol part. Because yeah... that plus dehydration will destroy you. But I follow a regimen almost identical to yours. While it certainly doesn't keep jet lag from occurring, it definitely helps things along. My biggest tip is hydration. I also now completely swear by compression socks.
Be careful with how much you pee, though. Frequent peeing is associated with weakened bladders in later life
"...for the love of science." I like that...been searching for an exclamatory phrase that doesn't resort to the usual suspects.
Awesome video!
As someone that regularly goes to sleep anywhere between 10pm to 10am I question if I even have a circadian rhythm anymore.
The only sleep pattern worse than a nocturnal one is an inconsistent one. There's plenty of videos you can watch that dive into the side effects of limited or irregular sleep, and how to get on track to having more consistent sleep patterns :)
I used to travel a lot between N. America and Asia. I never really experienced jet lag because, no matter what time it was where I arrived, I would always just force myself to stay up through the first "day" and not even bother with trying to sleep. I'd go to sleep whenever the next local time it was that I usually slept would roll around. At that point I'd be tired enough that I just go to sleep immediately and I wake up whenever I regularly wake up, but using local time. I feel like for me this bypasses any kind of schedule relating to the biological clock or circadian rhythm and resets everything to local time.
You seem so happy in this video, it's great.
Perhaps it's because I just returned from a holiday!
@@braincraft Australia is a lovely place to visit. Have you ever been before? ;-)
@@StaticImage ... just for the first 27 years of my life 😅
Watching this at 4am with jetlag after coming back from China! So cool to understand what’s happening in mybrain.
my tip from my experience in long travels ( usually over 28 hours of travel ) is to always avoid coffee and tea during the trip and don't try to sleep too much during the trip. when you arrive to your distention, wait until around 7 to 8 PM and go to sleep even if you were very tired and keep avoiding coffee, and take a long sleep until you are fresh. going that will take you just one day to fix your jet lag.
Wow. Great timing on the is video for me. Something to put into practise.
You always produce such wonderful pieces of art! Thank you for another wonderful and fascinating video :)
I’m currently in Greece on holiday from New Zealand and at took me about a week to feel like I was back on a normal sleep cycle, I’m also on my last couple of days before I head back, going to try and get onto Nz time before I hop on a plane!
I am doing the exact same flight tomorrow, im not looking forward to it.
Omg jajajaja
Well as a french person, I have to say that your poster intrigued me. I was wondering why you had a french version of H.G Wells's Time Machine.
Ohterwise, the subject is interesting. Nice video ^^
You can actually prepare before you go by eating and sleeping closer to the time schedule at your destination. So, traveling east, you would go to bed and wake up earlier, and also eat most of your meals early in the day.
Since I am studying at university I am working at a large company in shifts (early shift, late shift and night shift) in my summer holydays every year. Getting up early (4am) is often hard. I felt better when I also stood up early (at least 7am) the day before the first early shift so I was tired enough to go to bed and sleep early that day. Then I had almost no jetlag. After night shifts I was always able to fall asleep immediately. The key was to sleep enough to do the night shift without falling asleep and also sleeping less enough to be tired in the morning and fall asleep then (~7hrs}. After every last night shift there were some free days (before it started again with a early shift or late shift). I slept only ~5 hrs and got up around midday after the last night shift. Of course this made me feel a bit unwell but then I was tired enough to go o bed at a normal time in the evening. I often used these days for cleaning or other things I don't like and things that would make me feel unwell anyway ;) Obviousely this doesn't work for everyone and as you get older falling asleep after a night shift becomes harder and harder. What's always important is having much daylight to get awake and no daylight to go to bed (and some time before). So Ineeded almost no coffee ;)
Sleep is so fascinating. I'd love to find out more about what actually falling asleep is and why we can't really notice it.
Went from WA to FL once, with a layover. Arrived so exhausted from traveling that I went to bed at 7pm FL-time, woke up about 7am FL-time, and didn't have any jet lag at all. Going back home was a different story, though. Of course, I'm probably just an outlier that way, since I have ADD and Delayed Sleep, so I basically have no "internal clock/sense of time" other than being triggered by sunlight to want to sleep in a complete reverse of most people's sleep-pattern.
Flew to Vietnam from New York! Stayed awake 50 hours(got to airport early in day and arrived early) slept like a baby! Enjoyed my whole stay!
When I was switching between day and night shifts every month I really needed prescription meds. huge downside is they can be habit-forming. I also had to blackout my windows when trying to sleep during the day
What has worked for me has been simply to not go to sleep until a reasonable time in the arrival time zone. Yeah, a bit longish when going a lot of time zones eastward, but has allowed me to be reasonably functional the next day, and no issues the day after that. However, I recognize that I'm on the "robust" side of things, like having skipped a nights sleep sometimes, and once skipping two nights of sleep (in my home time zone).
surprisingly, for me, jetlag going west actually has a tendency to _fix_ my regularly unhealthy sleep cycle - if you go to sleep at 4AM, then having your body's 4AM be your current timezone's midnight actually helps a ton
Same here. but coming back to the east is painful.
West is usually easier to deal with
Is jet lag symptoms include head pressure that lasts for 3 weeks? Also can jet lag happen without traveling?
I can't sleeo and doctor told me you have jetlag so gave me melatonin to sleep and it has been a week since i started melatonin but im still suffering.. I cant sleep and when i do i feel pressure in my head which wakes me up everytime.
One thing I don't get about the advise is "Don't use devices or bright lights before bed", so mostly in the dark doing nothing (too dim to read), how is that any different from lying awake for hours on end? I must be missing something simple...
A month ago I had -7 hour jet lag, fell asleep at 7pm, woke up at 5am and had lunch by 10am, my way to beat that was to drink a ton of coffee for a few days and by day 3 I was almost back to regular
By some crazy coincidence, the Stars aligned up and when you said it's 2: 33am, it really was for me
When I go from Ohio (US) to the Philippines to see my wifes family, the trip is around 32 hours. 3 flights, one of which is 16 hours. Jet lag kills me once there and once back home since there is exactly a 12 hour difference between us.
My cure? I've tried sleeping pills, I've tried working out (to get tired at the right time)...etc. It tends to work. I also may find something that will keep me awake much longer then normal. Maybe I'll hop in a game for a few hours so tiem goes by and I don't feel sleepy. Though in the end what makes it hard is my wife works random hours. So a normal sleep schedule is hard to do.
I rotate my sleep schedule every day, I have a 25 hours day basically. And when I travel somewhere else I just rotate it a bit faster or slower
I sleep on planes well. The hum of engines puts me to sleep often before take-off. I slept for 12 hours on a 14 hour flight. Arrived in the morning so didn't have jetlag at all.
My tip it’s to change my clock/phone to the time of the place I am going to the second I get on the airplane to adjust to the new time zone as early as possible and eat/sleep on the plane according to that time schedule.
Trust me, getting used to these changes helps a lot, and there are several interesting studies that show how different wavelengths of light lead to more melatonin secretion, and hence a better sleep
Although there's 14 hrs difference between Sydney and New York for clocks, our bodies are probably not going to care about the dates so it's more like 10 hours for our bodies.
what about coffee and caffeine? would be interesting to hear if that plays into jet lag, as well as impact on the sleep processes generally (homeostatic & circadian rhythm).
If Sydney is 14 hours ahead of New York, it means new York is 10 hours ahead of Sydney the previous day, so the actual time to resync the two cycles should only be 10 days rather than 14. Also I suspect the going east is worse than going west rule flips around if the time difference is more than 12 hours, which would imply it should only take 5 days for someone travelling from Sydney to New York to get over jet lag.
I have been having jet lag for 5 years now. Can't go to sleep before 4 am. Should probably start worrying about it.
Do you use devices after 10pm?
Could be Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome.
I can’t imagine being organized and self-motivated enough to set up a dentist appointment within a week of getting to a new country.
Ha, I had booked it three weeks earlier, which is a different mistake - overestimating your future ability to be competent.
thanks for this
can we shift a whole day?
Worse traveling east than west? Personally I‘ve always found it to be the other way around (i.e. easier going to Europe than coming back to the US). Still, great video though!
So I'm in Jet Lag everyday for few years, but I don't do traveling.
Isn't it impossible to go 14 hours in one direction as you said?
Cause if you went 14 hours east, it means, in fact, you went 10 hours west, from what I understand.
My jetlag is always very bad. I get very sick and don't manage a sleeping schedule until days and days after my trip. I've tried almost everything. The only thing I've found it works is to be patient and wait it out. Usually I travel from Europe to South America and back.
I like the "Time Machine" poster in the background, cause that's what some planes literally are.
I also love how fitting it is! I wish I could say it was especially for this episode, though you will be seeing it every week :)
Welcome back Vanessa
My research into the effectiveness of melatonin (not specifically jet-lag related) studies showed that they only gave people and average of 7 minutes of extra sleep per night, so why bother? My own experience of taking it is that it didn't do much, although my difficulty in falling asleep and staying asleep was rooted in anxiety and "unhelpful" though patterns/spirals, rather than jet-lag
I have horror jet lag after being in Hawaii. It's just really bad. I can not fall asleep at all. I have been falling asleep at like 3 am 4 am and up at work at 645, not sure how I can quickly get back on track but I'm trying 🙃 😅 I'm in East Stand time now. Any tips?!
Just force yourself to stay awake until the next days normal sleep time. Normally fixes it.
very useful.
What about jet constipation?
I am not here to offer tips on how to prevent and or cure jetlag. I am here to offer a simple experiment all air travelers can perform before and during your air travels. Get a weight scale that will easily fit in your backpack. Take an inventory of the clothes and accessories youre wearing and weigh yourself at the airport terminal before you board your flight and write what you weighed so you dont forget. After the aircraft gets to its maximum altitude get your scale out and weigh yourself again and write what you weigh at that altitude.The premise or assessment here is that Earth's magnetic field is more dense at ground level and so people and objects weigh more at sea level and weigh less the higher we get because Earth's magnetic field becomes increasingly less dense the further away we get from Earth. So air travelers are experiencing only partial gravitational forces unlike the astronauts who experience zero gravity at the ISS. So i guess you could say air travelers are mini-astronauts or astronauts in training..So partial gravitational forces being experienced by air travelers may be the cause of jetlag.
Great video, hopefully your jet lag has improved and your not doomed lol.
I never get jet lagged, I don't understand why. I'm always surprised when everyone else has it except me
I don't really get it either. Even going half way across the world. Maybe that one day I'm a bit tired but that could just as well be related to sleeping crappy in a plane etc. After I've stayed one day on my new location, I'm fine.
Matthijn Dijkstra Yeah, I’ve done Montreal to Tokyo a few times and I always adapted naturally right away.
Try watching WWE's current product. Always puts me to sleep!
So, Sydney to New York is 14 hours east, wouldn't it be better to pretend it's 10 hours west? That would mean 5 days to recover instead of 14. You "lost" one night in the travel but that's a separate issue.
The best way to avoid Jetlag is to stay on the ground. Don't fly. That's better for the environment, too. Just don't pollute as much and as an added bonus, you'll also not mess up your internal clock.
Most of us have transatlantic trips
I went from Portugal to Japan, and I didn't feel jet lag at all. I never really felt jet lag. That or I can't recognize when I'm jet lagged xD
But isn't 14 hours to east is the same as 10 hours west?
When I can’t fall asleep at night I get very anxious and angry. The insomnia gives me suicidal thoughts and I want to destroy everything.
i still have jet lag from that day we changed the clock in the summer
Jokes on you; I'm immune to jet lag. I don't sleep 🙃
I have some times problems to sleep because I have to wake up very early... I try to count bunnies but some times it doesn't help too... I make aromatherapy with lavender and it helps a little. That's all the tips I have. How many bunnies can you count in one night? Have you tried it? 🐰🐰🐰🐰😉
I have a cure for Jet Lag, just be Bipolar! I haven't had a circadian rhythm in years. I work when i wake up and sleep when i get sleepy, no mater what time it is.
For half a moment I read that as Supermasochistic Nucleus. I need more sleep.
I missed this video styles.
There's also some interesting research on how travelling through time zones effects the microbiome.
Researchers also found that intermittent fasting when travelling can help prevent jet lag and lessen its impact
I flew east and it’s not the destination where u can’t sleep, it’s when you get back, and can’t fall asleep
msic is a little too loud especially at end
I am wondering why can't I sleep while watching this video at 11:30PM...
Well that’s a different way to pronounce “schedule”. Is it an aussie thing?
Do you have patience?
New York is in a odd place these days. oO
"I've been trying to fall asleep for 4 hrs" - welcome to my world
I never get jet lagged because I can’t afford to fly overseas
Then why are you watching this video? 😂
Ahh, so cool!
I used to travel internationally a lot. At least once a month, so I had perma-jetlag. I found the best solution is called business class. I can sleep in international business class, but not in economy. You still get out of sync with the day, but don't feel nearly so bad. I think this is because the worst part of jetlag is sleep deprivation, not the being out of sync. My other tricks were to eat fatty food (like a full English breakfast if visiting the UK) shortly after your intended waking time. I got that from research by Prof Seth Roberts. Also, as you say in the video, get out in early morning sunlight in the destination. You can move the needle up to 3-4 hours a day by doing these things. Melatonin never worked for me. I tried ambien - supposedly not addictive, but it's terribly addictive - try it for 3 days, then sleeping without it and you will see why. So I'm never taking Ambien again. The third big thing was to interact with people during the day. That gets your brain shifting its circadian priorities.
How to beat jet lag? Exercise!!! Can't not fall asleep when you've just ran for 15 kilometers
Ugh, jet lag. No homeo...
Working shift work. Eternal jet lag. 😅
Sleep studies on insects have proven this. Mostly from the study of 13 year and 17 year cicadian rhythms.
In 20s never gave this a single thought.. one side of the planet to the other... no problem... just go to sleep... Now 40 ish. Hell...
I've never been on a plane
Just smoke some indica before going to sleep
Melatonin may be overrated, search for melatonin on nutritionfacts . org
Hey don't beat me
Qatar is pronounced "cutter"
I looked it up in *so* many places and there were so many varying pronunciations. I'm curious - what's the reasoning behind that pronunciation? How do you know?
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Just stop having emotion and mood, stop trying to sleep, stop coffee and pills, sleep is like food a lack of it for few hour is more placebo effect, stop caring about it.